GORDON!!!!! Oh NO!!!!!
This is a bummer!
shareI'm watching again, but I'm still trying to process this - why did they have to do that?
shareI'm sure this will drive the final 3 hours left of the show.
shareYes, but it's not what I fantasized.
shareI just hope its not a saccharine happy ending or a cynical ending.
shareI, of course, wanted the 'get diabetes' ending. ;(
shareI've been monitoring the other website & Twitter & I always chuckle when people say, "I knew that was going to happen". One person said, "I knew that was going to happen in season one".
shareI didn't know or think it would happen until he started playing with the Breaker Box and then the Air Conditioning while talking to Joe and thought this conversation will distract him and he does something wrong.
shareDo you think when they first gave Gordon these illnesses, because he had more than one, that they were planning to kill him? I wanted a sugary ending. I'm disappointed in the Chrises.
shareI'm willing to give them a break right now to see where they go with it. In the context of this season, which started out with an oversized birthday party with the Blue Man Group it seemed this season was going to be partly about Gordon's journey up or down. Now it may be how much of a cog he was in the lives of these people around him.
shareI don't know - next week it looks like they are all cleaning out Gordon's house. They can't afford to hire anyone so Cameron is bringing the tape & boxes she found at a grocery store. Donna is having issues with both girls, Haley because of her revelations and Joanie, in general, telling her what a crappy mother she has been, so I guess life goes on.
shareI really don't understand this. What does that mean: "I didn't think this was that kind of show". What kind of show did you think it was? Is it only a particular "kind" of show that kills main characters?
I read pretty much the same thing from several different sources several times before. I get the impression that all of you think that a main character's death is only done for sensationalist purposes and at the expense of the general tone of a given show. I don't think this was the case at all with this show, after all, it is a fairly realistic drama that deals with the lives of fairly realistic characters. People die in real life. And yes, I fully expected Gordon to die eventually. I mean, it's not a case of me being a genius at prediction, I didn't get a hunch or anything, I didn't even need a hunch - it's just a matter of the show having spelled it out for us when they gave Gordon a very serious illness. Yeah, they put it on the shelf for a while, but was it ever implied it's just going to stay there? What would be the point of that?
Perhaps they meant to kill Gordon earlier, perhaps they didn't think they'd get four seasons. Or perhaps they intentionally wanted to introduce the concept of his eventual death very early so it wouldn't feel contrived or out-of-nowhere when he eventually does die. I don't know what was going on behind the scenes, but one thing is pretty clear - this is that "kind" of show (whatever that "kind" is) and obviously always was. There's really no reason at all to conclude it became a different kind of show because Gordon died.
Since the show is ending, I guess killing one of the main characters doesn't matter, but I don't know how they could have done it any other way. You're one of many who 'knew he was going to die'. As I wrote before some people knew he was going to die in season one. Joe is bi-sexual, then gay, then crazy in love with Cameron and they seem to pick up & drop that whenever they want, so yes I thought they had somewhat dropped Gordon's illness.
shareI'm sure the show was inconsistent here and there like any other show, though I don't remember any examples. But giving someone a serious illness, doing nothing much at all with that plot point and then shelving it forever would be a bigger oversight than anything else I can think of right now.
It's not that every ill character has to die, but that something like that should always mean something if it's introduced. The way they kept it shelved felt like they didn't do much at all about it and so I naturally assumed something would eventually come of it. I mean, you can't blame me, can you?
Joe is bi-sexual, then gay, then crazy in love with Cameron
That's actually not that strange at all. Not having a limited sexual orientation fits right into Joe's established character. If there's one thing we definitely learned about him, it's that he's not much for conventions. Well, apart from hygiene and fashion, but even in that, you get a sense of him projecting his will rather than begrudgingly stepping in line. share
I guess I'm not that deep because I thought when he burned his journals that meant he was a little embarrassed when Katie brought them up and he wanted to put his illness behind him because he felt OK. He did drive Donna home after she got stopped by the cops, so he was driving a bit. But apparently, that is not what that meant.
shareI didn't get the sense that burning journals was foreshadowing his death in particular either. I thought that was building up to something else and that he would get to live much longer. But then again, I wasn't aware this was the final season. I only learned that today, actually.
Also, it completely flew over my head that he wasn't supposed to drive while driving Donna. I didn't even think about that until you pointed it out now. I guess this underlines Donna's shame at the time even more, given that not only is the only person she can count on her ex husband, but the dude's not even supposed to drive.
All I can say is that the moment they revealed Gordon's illness, I suspected he will die at some point. And the moment they put it away and moved on to other plot points, I was entirely convinced he would eventually die.
I guess I live in that place called denial. lol
shareI did know it was gonna happen...said it right here a few weeks back and everyone told me this is no breaking bad... hahahaha I was right...also knew Gordon's sickness wasn't being swept under the rug...
shareI said it wasn't Breaking Bad, but it wasn't about Gordon dying, but no I didn't think anyone was going to die. Yeah, a lot of people knew. They knew since season one, two & three.
shareOh well. The story is almost played out so at this point it doesn't matter and they had to end Gordon's story arc eventually.
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